How to join absolute and relative urls?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8223...

Accepted answer links:
[urlparse.urljoin]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlpar...
[urlparse is renamed to urllib.parse]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlpar...
[use it as follow]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/urll...

Answer 2 links:
[How to join components of a path when you are constructing a URL in Python]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793...

Answer 3 links:
[Wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Re...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 319

You should use urlparse.urljoin :

>>> import urlparse
>>> urlparse.urljoin(url1, url2)
'http://127.0.0.1/test1/test4/test6.xml'

With Python 3 (where urlparse is renamed to urllib.parse) you could use it as follow:

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.urljoin(url1, url2)
'http://127.0.0.1/test1/test4/test6.xml'

ANSWER 2

Score 23

If your relative path consists of multiple parts, you have to join them separately, since urljoin would replace the relative path, not join it. The easiest way to do that is to use posixpath.

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> import posixpath
>>> url1 = "http://127.0.0.1"
>>> url2 = "test1"
>>> url3 = "test2"
>>> url4 = "test3"
>>> url5 = "test5.xml"
>>> url_path = posixpath.join(url2, url3, url4, url5)
>>> urllib.parse.urljoin(url1, url_path)
'http://127.0.0.1/test1/test2/test3/test5.xml'

ANSWER 3

Score 16

For python 3.0+ the correct way to join urls is:

from urllib.parse import urljoin
urljoin('https://10.66.0.200/', '/api/org')
# output : 'https://10.66.0.200/api/org'

ANSWER 4

Score 11

es = ['http://127.0.0.1', 'test1', 'test4', 'test6.xml']
base = ''
map(lambda e: urlparse.urljoin(base, e), es)